Artificial Intelligence Optimizes Reyna Silver’s Operations

Using ExploreTech’s Artificial Intelligence (AI), Reyna Silver celebrated a breakthrough at Guigui, discovering a significant magnetic anomaly. AI-optimized drilling reveals potential mineralized skarn beneath the volcanic cover, expanding exploration prospects.

Reyna Silver shared its findings from ExploreTech's application of AI to enhance geophysical data analysis at the Guigui Project in Chihuahua, Mexico. ExploreTech's AI algorithms pinpoint a robust magnetic anomaly southeast of the 0.5km2 sulphide-mineralized skarn footprint identified in 2022. The results confirm that the district's intrusive source is in that area and highlight the site's potential. 

The Guigui Project, part of the Santa Eulalia District, is among the world's largest Carbonate Replacement Deposits (CRDs) with over 500Moz of historical silver production. Reyna's exploration model suggests that the intrusive source and proximal mineralized skarn are yet to be found. ExploreTech's AI modeling aims to enhance traditional geological work to locate this intrusive source under thin volcanic rock cover.

ExploreTech's AI initially identifies geophysical anomalies' locations and then designs optimal drilling geometry. The process analyzes survey data and calculates potential explanations for surface anomalies, focusing on those likely caused by source intrusions for CRDs. Thousands of candidate models are evaluated in 3D to determine the best drilling trajectory to intersect potential intrusion-related anomalies.

The application of AI to highlight and strengthen target anomalies in existing geophysical datasets is considered a significant advancement in exploration. Reyna plans to use this approach for its Gryphon Summit and Medicine Springs CRD projects in Nevada.

Jorge Ramiro Monroy, CEO, Reyna Silver, expressed enthusiasm for the AI-optimized hole at Guigui, emphasizing its potential impact on refining exploration efforts. Dr. Peter Megaw, Chief Exploration Advisor, Reyna Silver, notes the value of combining AI with traditional geology for better targeting.  "Exploring through cover is not easy, so having this kind of tool to combine with boot-leather geology and sharpen our targeting at Guigui and our Nevada projects may be an important exploration advance across the board," said Megaw.

In Nevada, Reyna plans to apply ExploreTech's AI to aerial Magneto Telluric (MT) survey results at Medicine Springs. The data indicates a conductive anomaly beneath altered carbonates, suggesting a potential intrusive center. Reyna's Gryphon Summit project, equipped with extensive geophysics datasets, will benefit from ExploreTech's ability to process large datasets for the 2024 drilling program targeting porphyry-CRD mineralization and Carlin-type mineralization.